IRELAND.
The country was startled on Thursday afternoon by the intelligence that the Agamemnon and Niagara had actually submerged the electric wire, and that the communication between Ireland and Newfoundland was com- plete. In the course of the day the shares rose in London from 3401. to 9201., and in Liverpool to 10051. First came this telegraphic announce- ment to the Directors of the Company. "Valentia, August 5. "The Agamemnon has arrived at Valentia, and we are about to land the end of the cable.
"The Niagara is in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. There are good signals between the ships. "We reached the rendezvous on the night of the 28th, and the splice with the Niagara cable was made on board the Agamemnon the following morning. "By noon on the 30th 265 nautical miles were laid between the two ships ; on the 31st, 540; on the 1st of August, 884; on the 24, 1,256; on the 4th, 1,854; on anchoring at six in the morning, in Doulas Bay, 2,022.
"The rate of the Niagara during the whole time has been nearly the same as ours' the length of cable paid out from the two ships being generally within ten miles of each other.
"With the exception of yesterday, the weather has been very U11 favourable."
Then, yesterday morning, some further paticulars, by letter, dated Valentia 'Thursday. "Her Majesty's ship Agamemnon arrived of Doulas Head early this morning with the end of the telegraph cable ; the communication between Ireland and Newfoundland complete. Mr. Bright is now making arrange- ments for landing the end and thus bringing to a successful termination his anxious and difficult teak. From the time the Agamemnon left Queens- town, on the 18th of July, until she joined the rest of the sqadron at the rendezvous in mid ocean on the 29th, she experienced a continued sums- sion of heavy winds. The splice was successfully made on the afternoon of the 29th, and the ships started towards their several stations. On the evening of the same day a breach of continuity occurred in the cable which lasted one hour and a-half. The ship was stopped and the machinery re- paired, though not till hopes of holding on the cable had been abandoned. During Friday it blew a head gale of wind, against which the ship, under her full steam could hardly make way, even with yards and topmaits struck. On Saturday, the 31st, the wind shifted round to the south-west, and during-that day, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, it continued to blow hard, with frequent violent squalls, the sea running tremendously high the whole time and no one expected the cable to hold on from one minute to the other. On Wednesday the weather moderated, but the swell was still
About 4 a.m. the change from the lower to the upper cable was suc- cessfully made, and during the afternoon shallow water was gained. The second change from the upper to the orlop deck cod was made about 9 °'clock in the evening ; after which all went well until the ship anchored at 6 a.m. in Doulas Bay. The Niagara is either landing her end in Trinity gay, or is about doing so shortly, though some little delay must necessarily
before the instruments are made for signalling through to America."
The Encumbered Estates Court died on the 28th July. It is stated that the total amount of purchase money that has passed through the Court from the commencement is over 22,000,0001., out of which about 3,000,0001., or not quite so much, were purchased by English and Scotch purchasers. The number of estates sold were 2,380, divided into more than 11,000 lots, and 8,235 conveyances have been executed by the Com- missioners. The Court will be reestablished under the Leases and Sales of Landed Estates Act, and it is calculated that the amount of business to be brought before the new Court will be large beyond any estimate that has been framed, for, if the proceedings be well regulated, and the Court prove moderate in cost and expeditious in practice, nearly the whole of the conveyancing business of the country will pass through it.
The Wateiford Mail says it is much more than probable that the title of Lord Caber—presumed to be extinct by the death of the Earl of Glengall- will be shortly revived in the person of a gentleman residing near Clonmel, he being lineally descended from Earl Desmond, of Dromona, to whose grandaughter—daughter of Dord Decies--his great grandfather was united.
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